Jurists Uprooted

German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain

Edited by Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann

The first assessment of the contribution of refugee and émigré legal scholars to English law

Contributions to the intellectual history of a number of areas of English law in the 20th century, by an outstanding cast of contributors

Particularly topical because the relationship of the common law with the civilian legal systems of Europe is of increasing theoretical and practical importance

Jurists Uprooted

German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain

Edited by Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann

Description

As a result of the Nazi-regime, German law faculties lost just over a quarter of their members. Recent years have seen a growing body of literature on the contribution of scientists, historians, and literary and artistic figures who were forced to leave Germany and Austria after Hitler came to power. This volume is the first study of the important contribution of refugee and é migré legal scholars to the development of English law. It considers nineteen legal scholars originally trained in Germany or Austria, (fifteen of whom were expelled from their posts in the 1930s) and who made their home in England, and assesses their contribution to scholarship in a very different legal system from that which they left.

Jurists Uprooted

German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain

Edited by Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann

Author Information

Sir Jack Beatson, FBA, is a Justice of the High Court, Queen's Bench Division, and former Rouse Ball Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. Reinhard Zimmermann, FBA, is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law, Hamburg; and Professor of Private Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Legal History at the University of Regensburg.

Jurists Uprooted

German-speaking Émigré Lawyers in Twentieth-century Britain

Edited by Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmermann

Reviews and Awards

"Jack Beatson and Reinhard Zimmerman have collected (and contributed) papers rich in the texture of the experience of the judges, lawyers, and law professors driven into exile by the National Socialist regime in Germany and the impact this had in terms of the host's legal and academic culture. This book is important for those interested in the dialectic of discourse between alien legal systems." --Law and History Review

"In a nicely organized volume, Justice Sir Jack Beatson and Professor Reinhard Zimmerman have edited two dozen essaysabout the most important German-speaking legal scholars and lawyers who fled Nazi Germany [their] effort is one of reparation, respect, and affection for its subjects." --Richard M. Buxbaum, American Journal of Comparative Law